Liu Yongzhang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1942 in Shaoyang, Hunan. In the 1960s Liu Yongzhang followed his uncle Liu Henggui, carrying the troupe's equipment on a shoulder pole to perform in the countryside, and in the 1980s he performed on his own in market towns and villages in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong. His representative works include Green Dragon Mountain and Guan Yu Fights at Changsha, and he now devotes himself to the transmission, research and performance of glove puppetry.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Shaoyang glove puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. As the eighteenth-generation transmitter of Shaoyang glove puppetry, he has a firm command of its technical characteristics and in 2004 won an excellence award at the Hunan Provincial Ethnic and Folk Culture and Art Exposition.
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